MULTIMEDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does multimedia mean? 

• MULTIMEDIA (noun)
  The noun MULTIMEDIA has 1 sense:

1. transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.)

  Familiarity information: MULTIMEDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MULTIMEDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

multimedia; multimedia system

Hypernyms ("multimedia" is a kind of...):

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "multimedia"):

hypermedia; hypermedia system; interactive multimedia; interactive multimedia system (a multimedia system in which related items of information are connected and can be presented together)

 Context examples 

A textual or multimedia form of the signed name or personal mark of the investigator who is responsible for completing a particular document as a part of clinical study activity.

(Investigator Signature, NCI Thesaurus)

Material recorded in a format that requires an electronic device to view or modify, encompassing documents, images, multimedia, web pages, and other digital media.

(Electronic Content, NCI Thesaurus)

An optical disk that is physically the same as an audio CD, but contains multimedia information (images, sound, etc.) The user can interact with films, games and educational programs.

(Compact Disc-Interactive, NCI Thesaurus)